The Holocaust Museum Watch, AMCHA, and Magen David Sephardic Congregation (Rockville, MD) are sponsoring a forum to discuss the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s failure to document the role Arabs and Islamic groups played in the Holocaust, as well the Museum’s silence on the role extreme Islamic groups have played in Holocaust denial and in recent anti-Semitic attacks worldwide.

Participants:
• Edwin Black, the award-winning, New York Times and investigative author whose books include "IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation" and "Banking on Baghdad: Inside Iraq's 7,000-Year History of War, Profit, and Conflict." His recent JTA article, "Despite Holocaust Denial, Iran Seen To Have Worked With Nazis" (12/19) was republished in the Washington Jewish Week. It can be read here.
• Congressmen Elliot Engel of New York
• Rabbi Avi Weiss, president of AMCHA
• Chuck Morris, Massachusetts congressional candidate and author of "The Nazi Connection to Islamic Terrorism"
• Maurice Shohet, an Iraqi Jew on the silence of the Museum on the fate of Jews in Arab lands, and on the 1941 Farhud massacre, when Iraqis, in a show of solidarity with Hitler, instigated a pogrom murdering Baghdad’s Jews in their homes.
• Fred S. Zeidman, chair of the Museum - has been invited

Issues to be discussed: 1. The U.S. Holocaust Museum has made no effort in their permanent or temporary exhibits to educate Americans about the dangers of Islamic anti-Semitism. 2. The Museum makes no mention in their permanent exhibit of the role that Arab leaders played in the Holocaust. They do not display documents or photographs of the meetings between Hitler and the grand Mufti of Jerusalem and make no mention of the fact that both the Grand Mufti and the Persian leader, Reza Shah Pahlavi, asked Hitler to exterminate the Jewish populations of Palestine and Persia (now Iran). 3. The Museum has never held a program, a lecture or even sponsored research on the current rise of anti-Semitism by Arab groups in Europe even though it has been well documented that recent attacks against Jews and synagogues in France, Germany and Britain have been instigated by Arab-Islamic groups. Wednesday, January 18, 2006 at 7:30 pm Ohev Sholom Talmud Torah--The National Synagogue 1600 Jonquil St NW Washington DC 20012 Admission free Visit our website